FORCE

Magnets

MEDIUM

Pen on pendulum over drawing board

A pendulum sways continuously, an everlasting
mechanical exchange between opposing forces.
This drawing machine creates lines of varying
densities through the inertia and momentum of
a pendulum that is propelled by magnetic fields.
Suspended by Neodymium magnets is a pen, this
system is then repelled by an electromagnet, while
in addition several more Neodymium magnets are
placed beneath the bed of the machine. The seemingly
‘random’ strokes across the set of drawings
are a manifestation of various physical attractions
including: the center of gravity, mass in motion,
latency, inertia as well as magnetic repulsion acting
upon one another. Considering such factors,
one might pose the question of whether the notion
of ‘randomness’ exists in reality or if it is merely
a simplification of highly complex phenomena,
which escape the perceptive capacity of humans.